### Function

# GLib basename

deprecated: 2.2

#### Declaration [src]

    const gchar*
    g_basename (
      const gchar* file_name
    )

#### Description [src]

Gets the name of the file without any leading directory components. It returns a pointer into the given file name string.

Deprecated since: 2.2

Use `g_path_get_basename()` instead, but notice that `g_path_get_basename()` allocates new memory for the returned string, unlike this function which returns a pointer into the argument.

#### Parameters

`file_name`

  Type: `const gchar*`

  The name of the file.

  The data is owned by the caller of the function.
  The value is a platform-native string, using the preferred OS encoding on Unix and UTF-8 on Windows.

#### Return value

Type: `const gchar*`

The name of the file without any leading directory components.

The data is owned by the called function.
The value is a platform-native string, using the preferred OS encoding on Unix and UTF-8 on Windows.